Real Words Without Definition
We're sure about this one.
A normal word with something added to the front or the back.
You can read these without being told what they mean. lifehood is life plus -hood. citydom is city plus -dom. musicproof is music plus -proof. Around 21,753 words in the list carry a prefix like un-, non-, over- or anti-.
Nothing is wrong with them. No dictionary bothered to list them because the meaning is obvious from the parts.
24,323 words · sorted A to Z · each with a line on why it is here
Matches the word itself, not the note beside it. Case does not matter.
| Word, sorted Z to A | How it is built |
|---|---|
| unteaseled | un- + teaseled, nap not raised |
| unteaselled | un- + teaselled, doubled-l spelling |
| unteasled | un- + teasled, syncopated spelling |
| untechnicalize | un- + technicalize |
| untediously | un- + tediously |
| unteem | un- + teem, to cease to teem or pour out |
| untelic | un- + telic, without purpose |
| untemperable | un- + temperable |
| untemperamentally | un- + temperamentally |
| untemperance | un- + temperance, older word for intemperance |
| untempestuously | un- + tempestuously |
| untempestuousness | un- + tempestuousness |
| untemporally | un- + temporally |
| untemptibly | un- + temptibly |
| untenaciously | un- + tenaciously |
| untenaciousness | un- + tenaciousness |
| untenebrous | un- + tenebrous, not dark |
| untensely | un- + tensely |
| untenseness | un- + tenseness |
| untensibility | un- + tensibility |
| untensible | un- + tensible |
| untensibly | un- + tensibly |
| untensile | un- + tensile |
| untentaculate | un- + tentaculate, without tentacles |
| untenuously | un- + tenuously |
| untenuousness | un- + tenuousness |
| untermed | un- + termed, unnamed |
| unterminableness | un- + terminableness |
| unterminational | un- + terminational |
| unterminative | un- + terminative |
| unterrifically | un- + terrifically |
| unterse | un- + terse |
| untersely | un- + tersely |
| unterseness | un- + terseness |
| untestamental | un- + testamental |
| untestate | un- + testate, without a will |
| untewed | un- + tewed, leather not worked or dressed |
| untextually | un- + textually |
| untextural | un- + textural |
| untheistical | un- + theistical |
| untheistically | un- + theistically |
| untheologic | un- + theologic |
| untheoretically | un- + theoretically |
| unthewed | un- + thewed, without thews or good manners |
| unthick | un- + thick |
| unthickly | un- + thickly |
| unthickness | un- + thickness |
| unthievish | un- + thievish |
| unthievishly | un- + thievishly |
| unthievishness | un- + thievishness |
| unthinkables | un- + thinkable, pluralized |
| unthistle | un- + thistle, to clear of thistles |
| unthorn | un- + thorn, to clear of thorns |
| unthoughtlike | un- + thoughtlike |
| unthriftihood | un- + thriftihood, unthriftiness |
| unthriftlike | un- + thriftlike |
| unthrivingly | un- + thrivingly |
| unthroatily | un- + throatily |
| unthroaty | un- + throaty |
| unthrob | un- + throb |
| unthundered | un- + thundered |
| unthundering | un- + thundering |
| unthwacked | un- + thwacked |
| unthwarting | un- + thwarting |
| untiaraed | un- + tiaraed, not wearing a tiara |
| untilling | un- + tilling, leaving untilled |
| untimedness | un- + timedness |
| untimesome | un- + timesome, untimely |
| untimidness | un- + timidness |
| untimorously | un- + timorously |
| untimorousness | un- + timorousness |
| untindered | un- + tindered, without tinder |
| untippled | un- + tippled |
| untissued | un- + tissued |
| untithability | un- + tithability |
| untitularly | un- + titularly |
| untoggler | untoggle + -er, one that untoggles |
| untolerableness | un- + tolerableness |
| untolerating | un- + tolerating |
| untolerative | un- + tolerative |
| untonality | un- + tonality |
| untone | un- + tone, to deprive of tone |
| untopographically | un- + topographically |
| untormenting | un- + tormenting |
| untormentingly | un- + tormentingly |
| untorpidly | un- + torpidly |
| untorporific | un- + torporific |
| untorridity | un- + torridity |
| untorridly | un- + torridly |
| untorridness | un- + torridness |
| untortious | un- + tortious, legal, not a tort |
| untortiously | un- + tortiously |
| untortuously | un- + tortuously |
| untortuousness | un- + tortuousness |
| untorture | un- + torture |
| untotted | un- + totted, not added up |
| untoughly | un- + toughly |
| untoughness | un- + toughness |
| untown | un- + town, to strip of town character |
| untoxic | un- + toxic |
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